Too bad the US still defines broadband as 25d/3u, and allows plans with low caps to qualify.
Exactly the point I was going to make. It's easy to have proliferation when you make it so any freaking cellphone that's still in service can meet the target.
I can see it now.
Cabinet: So we've gotten 92% of our customers on broadband. Was it expensive?
FCC: Well...
Cabinet: What do you mean Well. We DID achieve the target right?
FCC: Yep. Target met .
Cabinet: Something doesn't seem right here. How much did it cost for the rollout of lines and all of that? New infrastructure. We funded like 65 billion at the federal level, states did their own, to help make this happen and offset costs.
FCC: Well you see...
Cabinet: Ok what the **** happened then?
FCC: We more or less gave out all of the money... but it wasn't going to happen.
Cabinet: Why not?
FCC: Well our buddies in the Telcom and communications industries needed to do some Chirstmas shopping.
Cabinet: So we gave away tens of billions of dollars... and you're telling me that they didn't use it for infrastructure to have wider proliferation of good broadband services.
FCC: Well... yea I guess I am.
Cabinet: So HOW did you manage to help America achieve 92% of broadband proliferation?
FCC: Oh that's easy... we lowered the bar so someone with a better than 3g phone would be considered as having broadband wherever they were. Then we figured out that over 92% of homes in the US have a functional cell phone... and we hence met our target.
Cabinet: See and they thought 25megabit was too much! Lets go snort some coke off of boy hooker backs and then kick out that senator who sent his bulge picture to a 23 year old!
FCC: Sounds like a plan to me!
